My adventures in genealogy and the stories of the people in my family tree. The tree includes my ancestors (themselves, their siblings, spouses and in-laws) and my husband's family. Primary names on my side include Roth, Fried, Grosser, Lieberman, Tepper, and Kandel, and on his side, Crime, Neumann, Gorman, Ferguson and McCann.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Moishe and Esther Malka Kandel

Moishe Kandel of Makhnovka, about 1904

Some time ago I posted about Philip Lieberman and his wife Bella (Beile). While I know little about Philip before he came to the US, Bella's family is a different story. Bella's father was Moishe Kandel, and her mother was called Esther Malka. They lived in the town of Makhnovka in the Berdichev Uzezd, Kiev Gubernia, in what is now Ukraine. In the late 1890s, Makhnovka was a good sized town with about 5300 inhabitants, of which 2400 were Jews [1]. Moshe was said to be a cantor for the local congregation.
Moishe and Esther Malka had at least four daughters Pesa, Alte Sara, Chana and Beile. All four daughters married in Makhnovka, and had children there. Pesa, the oldest, was born about 1851, and died about 1877 in Makhnovka. She married Shalom Yosef Keyser in about 1870, and had twin boys, Aaron and Lieb in 1872. Aaron, who became Harry, came to the US in about 1904. Lieb, who became Louis, came to New York on June 19, 1904 aboard the SS Etruria from Rotterdam.[2] They both came to Philadelphia and worked for their uncle, Philip Lieberman, Beile's husband, making men's pants.
Alte Sarah was born about 1860 and married Yehuda Lieb Apple in about 1879. They had four children, Samuel (Sholem, 1885), Harry Isaac (Aaron, 1890), Gertrude (Golde, 1899), and Dorothy (Dora, 1901). Lieb came to the US in about 1901 where he worked as a self employed poulterer or butcher. On October 2 1902, Samuel arrived in Quebec sailing from Liverpool aboard the SS Lake Champlain[3]. He joined his father in Philadelphia, probably travelling on the Grand Trunk railroad through St Albans NY, the usual route of passengers arriving from Canada. On January 24, 1905, Sarah and the other three children arrived in Philadelphia aboard the SS Friesland from Liverpool to join their husband and father[4].

L-R: Golde Apple, Moishe Kandel, Harry Apple, Alte Sarah Apple, Dora Apple. The photo was taken in Makhnovka in 1904 before Sarah and the children left for Philadelphia to join her husband and son. This is the original from which the photo above of Moishe Kandel was restored.

Chana Kandel, the next oldest sister was born about 1876. She was married three (or four) times over the years and had five children. Her first marriage was to Shlomo Friedman. They had a daughter, Lillian in about 1892. Chana's second husband, was Alter Diamond. They had a son Jossel in about 1896. Jossel and Lillian both later went by Chana's third husband's name, Aron Goldenberg. Aron, Chana, and Jossel came to the US on the SS Pretoria which docked in New York from Hamburg on January 2, 1901[5]. Aron was a tailor and reported that he was going to his brother-in-law, Philip Lieberman in Philadelphia. Lillian came later, according to family lore, after her grandfather had died. Jossel became Joseph Goldenberg, and later, Joseph Bernard Gould. Chana became Anna or Annie. Anna and Aaron had three more children after they settled in the US, first in Philadelphia and then Wilmington, Del. Leopold and Philip were born soon after the couple arrived in the US, and a daughter, Esther Malka, was born in 1902[6]. Aron died in 1937. Family lore says that Anna married again, to a man named Eisen, but I haven't found a record of it. She died March 25, 1945 and was buried under the name Anna Goldenberg.
The youngest sister Beile, or Bella, who married Philip Lieberman, I have treated before. Philip and Bella had a large family of six children which I will discuss in a later post. All four Kandel sisters, their husbands, some children, and other family are buried in Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown PA, in a section purchased by the Moishe Maknovker Benevolent Association, founded by them and named for Moishe Kandel of Maknovka.